Today we're launching our crowdfunding campaign to raise £10,000 to employ a Development Worker to help us deliver Phase 1 of our business plan:

A candidate (tenant) selection & land matching process.

A tenancy agreement template which provides a legal framework for renting on long term and agroecological basis.

A support network for new tenants to help their farm business and a membership base.

A brokering service which matches tenants with landowners using the above systems.

‘Investment Readiness’ for Phase 2- a detailed business plan & enough organisational profile to reach as many potential investors as possible.

We are currently entirely voluntary run and we need staff to help us do these.

Phase 2 of our business plan will deliver the full aim of purchasing farmland funded by community share offers, in order to provide the best & longest term tenancies for our farmers. We will then scale this up with the aim to purchase & rent out 10 farms in 10 years.​What we hope to raise with our crowdfunding campaign

The more money we can raise, the more impact we can have. Here is a breakdown of what we plan to do depending on how much money we can raise:

£20,000 Pays for a development worker for 1 year, 3 days a week. This work will involved developing a network of people looking for land, identifying potential land we could purchase, and procedures for how we purchase the land.

£40,000 Enables us to also employ a land agent for a year to help develop a pioneering agroecological tenancy agreement and broker tenancies between existing landowners and aspiring agroecological farmers.

£50,000 Allows us also to run a programme of public events across Scotland to build SFLT's profile, build a support network for future tenants and help to build a movement for agroecological farming in Scotland.

£70,000 Enables a development worker for another year, getting SFLT to the point it can offer share offers for significant, game-changing farm opportunities. This will set us on track to achieve our "10 farms in 10 years" target.

£90,000 Enables an additional year of employment for a land agent to continue work as above.

We plan to match the proceeds of the crowdfunder with grant-funding like for like. So, if we raise £10,000 with the crowdfunder we will match this with £10,000 grantfunding, making your donation go further.

Support us, and DONATE TODAY! Our campaign will run until 29th November 2019

I know that you have been making this campaign for a certain project, and this makes me really happy. You guys are composed of kind-hearted people who are ready to help others, and I was really inspired by your actions. Eventually, I am pretty sure that you will be able to collect £10k for your project! It's for good deeds and God knows how much you have been working for this, that's why you deserve to receive it!